A mechanism underlying improved dual-task performance after practice: Reviewing evidence for the memory hypothesis.
Coordination skills
Dual tasks
Dual-task performance
Dual-task practice
Task coordination
Journal
Psychonomic bulletin & review
ISSN: 1531-5320
Titre abrégé: Psychon Bull Rev
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9502924
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
26 Mar 2024
26 Mar 2024
Historique:
accepted:
15
03
2024
medline:
26
3
2024
pubmed:
26
3
2024
entrez:
26
3
2024
Statut:
aheadofprint
Résumé
Extensive practice can significantly reduce dual-task costs (i.e., impaired performance under dual-task conditions compared with single-task conditions) and, thus, improve dual-task performance. Among others, these practice effects are attributed to an optimization of executive function skills that are necessary for coordinating tasks that overlap in time. In detail, this optimization of dual-task coordination skills is associated with the efficient instantiation of component task information in working memory at the onset of a dual-task trial. In the present paper, we review empirical findings on three critical predictions of this memory hypothesis. These predictions concern (1) the preconditions for the acquisition and transfer of coordination skills due to practice, (2) the role of task complexity and difficulty, and (3) the impact of age-related decline in working memory capacity on dual-task optimization.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38530593
doi: 10.3758/s13423-024-02498-0
pii: 10.3758/s13423-024-02498-0
doi:
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Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
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IM
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Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : SCHU 1397/5
Organisme : Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
ID : STR 1223/1
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